Have your say on the Hodgson Review: a quick poll2

IT | 16 Jul 2012

The Hodgson Review of the Charities Act 2006, released yesterday, contained more than 100 proposals. The charity sector has been vocal in its reactions, but what do you think? Fill out our quick poll.

The Hodgson Review sparked a flurry of activity on Twitter, and the sector's umbrella bodies were quick to release their position statements.

In brief, the review's main proposals included:

Allowing charities with income over more than £1m to pay trustees, without having to seek permission from the Charity Commission
Introducing fines for charities which submit their accounts late to the Commission
Developing a single, donor-focused system of self-regulation for fundraising
Raising the threshold for charities to have to register with the Charity Commission, and submit themselves to audits
Scrapping national exemption orders, which enable some charities to fundraise door-to-door without gaining local authority approval

Some of the proposals have proven highly controversial already, in particular the proposal to allow larger charities to pay trustees more easily.

These recomendations are not yet law, regulation or even best practice. The process of enacting some of these regulations, should they be accepted by government, could be drawn out, as they would require some 29 pieces of primary legislation.

So what do you think of it? Have your say in our quick poll.

You need not answer each question, but please press 'submit' at the bottom of the list of questions otherwise we will not be able to process your response.

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Andrew Mcculloch
19 Jul 2012

Hopefully there is a handy recycling bin somewhere for this report which pays little attention to sector views, or indeed the ethos of the sector. The autthors also seem not to have assessed the capabilities of the Charity Commission in their analysis.

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Dominic Will
Joint Managing Director
Home Fundraising Ltd
17 Jul 2012

Re Self regulation & moving away from self certification:
We welcome recommendations around moving towards more robust auditing of FRSB members' compliance. We believe all agencies involved in professional fundraising should be fully accountable for the recruitment, training and management of their fundraising staff . We also believe this should extend to all quality control procedures and the demonstration of compliance with relevant codes of conduct.
To be credible, auditing by sector regulators must take into account all areas of a charity's or company's fundraising operations - not simply specific areas involved in complaints investigation or exact areas of compliance. Within the F2F fundraising sector there is a continued lead role to play for the PFRA, though as the review suggests, the specific roles of sector regulators do need clarification.

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